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How Wealth Is Ordered
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Hyperinflations and Currency Collapses

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Episodes of extreme, self-reinforcing inflation in which a currency loses most or all of its value within months, the inflation-crisis category of the discipline's own crisis taxonomy. Belongs here: a hyperinflation episode considered as the collapse of one currency's own value. Does not belong here: an ordinary currency devaluation or sovereign default that does not reach hyperinflationary levels, grouped under Sovereign Debt and Currency Crises.

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